Happy Birthday Bob Marley! Bob Marley – Trenchtown Rock
As if the Downtown New York City music scene hasn’t taken enough body blows in recent years, the building that houses The Mercury Lounge has been put up on the
Each year the Sundance Film Festival throws a handful of interesting music-themed films into the mix. While the major Hollywood studios might not ever get behind these indie films, they are still definitely worth checking out.
When You’re Strange: Doors documentary featuring new, unseen footage from 1966-1971 narrated by Johnny Depp
The Carter: Love him or hate him, Lil’ Wayne is everywhere, including Sundance with this behind the scenes film about his rapid rise to super stardom over the past year.
READ ON for two more music-related movies debuting at Sundance 2009…
Listening to longtime HT favorite Marco Benevento’s latest studio effort, Me Not Me – a collection of unique sonic rearrangements of a wide variety of cover tunes – it quickly
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/3089176[/vimeo] Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
This wasn’t Guitar Center or Musicians Warehouse or any of the other large corporate owned multi-instrument behemoth, this was your friendly neighborhood guitar shop. With a dazzling array of guitars hung to a basic pegboard backdrop, a cash register, “No Stairway To Heaven” – an ode to Wayne’s World – and “Shoplifters Will Die” signs, the stage was set for America’s favorite “one man jam-band” to take the stage.
[All photos by Megan Case]
The lights fell at 8:45 p.m. and Keller’s Guitar Shop & Clinic opened for business. Its chief proprietor, Keller Williams, ambled to center stage, with guitar in hand and a goofy grin on his face as a flurry of notes reverberated out of the Variety Playhouse’s speakers. Perhaps the most lovable and likeable acoustic axe man around, Keller’s unique sound and presentation are his hallmark; his clever, cheerful and upbeat grooves are his trademark. The sold-out show seemed relatively sparse when Keller started up, but slowly and surely filled in.
The first time I saw Keller back in ’99, I was absolutely blown away. He is able to combine his virtuosic guitar playing with bass lines, drum fills, beats, horns and keyboards looped through delay devices, which creates a thick pillow to either play, sing or solo over. The results are truly unique and often times sublime. Keller’s show on the last day of January in Atlanta was much of the same and that’s a good thing.
READ ON for more of Matt’s review of K-Dub at the Variety…
After a long nine years, Guns N’ Roses leader Axl Rose has finally granted another print interview. Billboard’s Jonathan Cohen recently got the reclusive rockstar to answer questions about Chinese
The organizers of this year’s Grammy Awards Ceremony have done a good job of putting together a lineup of all-time greats including Radiohead, (with guest drummer Dave Grohl), Alison Krauss
